Close to the Metal

Halt and Catch Fire 1×4

& Bosworth: $1.3 million in 20 days and you just... you just understand?
    MacMillan: The future’s expensive. We knew that. Apple spends that daily on its in-house catering.

& MacMillan: How much longer till you’re done?
    Cameron: I don’t know, two days?
    MacMillan: A day and a night, or two full days?
    Cameron: 31.29 hours and 13 nanoseconds. Can you leave and shut the door?
    MacMillan: I’m calling a team-building meeting.
    Cameron: You’re joking, right?

& MacMillan: Hey, you know programmers. What’s the joke? “They’re just machines for turning pizza into code.”

& Gordon: Cameron, where are the other ones?.. Here, check ’em.
    Larry: Yep... No. This one’s degaussed.
    Stan: This one, too... wiped.
    Gordon: What? How is that possible? ... You put your... you put your backups next to your speakers and then you blast music? Good God, Cameron. Why didn’t you just put a magnet up to them?!

& Donna: Besides the floppy you left in the A-drive and the stack near the speakers, are you sure you never backed up elsewhere?
    Cameron: Uh-huh.
    Donna: That’s a no? Okay, how about a list of files? Do you keep anything like that?
    Cameron: No. When you’re in the flow creating something, you don’t just stop for some mindless bookkeeping.
    Donna: Right, which is why we’re here right now.

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& Donna: It’s melted, fine, so it can’t spin. The read head’s damaged anyway. We’ll have to remount it on a different spindle.
    Gordon: Wait, won’t that just ruin the head on that one?
    Stan: Yeah, you gonna spin it by hand? A micron at a time?
    Donna: Yes. If the guys at NASA can grind parabolic mirrors to within one sixth of the wavelength of yellow light by hand, I’m pretty sure I can control the rotation of a disk. In fact, my chances of success are greater by a factor of 144.

& Donna: There. There it is, the FAT. It’s mostly intact.
    Gordon: Thank God!
    Donna: Easy, now. It’s a process.

& Gordon: You know, watching you work, you know what it reminds me of?
    Donna: How often you distract me when I’m trying to work?

& Kane: Nice save. Crisis averted, huh?
    Donna: Well, we’re just lucky the file allocation table wasn’t lost. Once I found that, I was able to write a program to help reassemble the data sectors. She’s not completely recovered, but by my calculations... about 93%.
    Kane: And you are?..
    Gordon: This is, um, Susan Fairchild. She’s one of our debuggers. Thanks, Susan. Nice work.

& Donna: I have to tell you, my code... was never like yours. Yours is, uh... well, it’s like a piece of music.

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